"Within a month we'll be thrown out of the house with a sick child!"
"Within a month we'll be thrown out of the house with a sick child!"
When my grandson was diagnosed with cancer, I felt that our world was being turned upside down.
We are a small family that barely has the means for food and basic things. Shotiko's parents live with me because they have no money. Making a living here in Georgia is so difficult.
Then it came the painful news. For the first series of treatments for Shotiko, I took a loan from the bank, we left everything behinds and went to Samoa for treatments. I thought that when he recovered I would repay the debt. But when the cancer came back a second time the bank didn't care for it.
They came to my house last week and said they were going to take our house.
I held his Shotiko in my arms and cried: 'I have a child with cancer at home! He's only 5 years old! I don't have money for the next section of treatments. So how will I pay you for the debt? "
And they stayed indifferent and cold. Nothing interested them. They just told me, 'Ma'am, you have a month to repay the debt. Otherwise in the middle of the snow we will be forced to throw you out and sell the house "
For a week we only drank tea, so that he would have the medicine he needed. But even that didn't help. We have no way to save Shotiko, and if we don't repay the debt for the previous treatments we will be thrown next month from home into the cold streets with a child with cancer.
I am writing to you in tears. We have no way out of this situation without your help. We have a huge debt in the bank. They are going to throw us into the street and Shtiko needs medicine that we have no way of paying.
I beg you not to ignore us. That you will not let my grandson die like this. That you will not let us be thrown into the street just because we tried to save our sweet grandson.
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